Absorber Antenna (2024)
CPR's long-running Fall Movement program is an opportunity for artists to present new, fully-produced work in dance, performance, and time-based art in a shared program, curated by an independent panel of artists through an open call.

Cal Fish: Pre-York River: Absorber Antenna A solo performance exploring the body as absorber/container and antenna/conduit for sounds and memories, Pre-York River: Absorber Antenna is a series of carefully indexed choreographies enabled by sound sculptures that will share a collection of audio. The Dynamic Listening Instrument, FM radios and transmitters, and a towel with conductive thread to sense a body will be engaged by a score. Sonic fragments will echo NYC's intense flooding, offer visions of remediation, and share "watermark memories,'' and deeply affective oral histories from Cal Fish's interviewing practice. Using their body as a literal antenna and conduit, sharing site-specific body mapping of FM waves, electromagnetic fields, and zones of capacitive reactivity, movement and sound will be linked, sonic tasks will have choreographic consequences, and movements will have sonic repercussions.



















photos by Elyse Mertz couresy of Center for Performance Research